Prose If World Distributors had still been publishing Doctor Who annuals in the Eighth Doctor era, this is just the kind of prose story you'd expect to find, probably with illustrations using Stephen McGann and Titanic era Kate Winslet as reference for Eighth and Charley (and later read on audio by Dan Starkey). While the Time Lord gives the Edwardian Adventuress a science lesson about terrible and toxic surface of Venus, they become aware of a nearby anomaly and decide to investigate. They land in a forest and meet a group of Golgafrinchan B-Arkers with a single, terrible purpose that should probably have come with a trigger warning. But once the Doctor's asked sufficient questions to help explain the mystery from their leader and Charley's been suitably horrified, they decide that it's fair enough, no one's being coerced into anything and that he should leave these people be, and the TARDIS team wander off back to their time ship. The two leads are pretty well characterised and there is some dialogue which India Fisher would probably adore saying but like a lot of these shorts, there's nothing in here which couldn't be told with a different TARDIS crew in exactly the same way. Perhaps some illustrations might have helped.
Placement: The incident on the R101 is described as happening some time previously, so lets drop it in the second season of the first run.
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